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More than 40,000 people sign up for health insurance coverage through Nevada exchange

S.Vagus
Nevada health insurance commissioner State Legislature Building

State insurance exchange is performing well this year Thousands of consumers in Nevada have purchased health insurance coverage through the state’s exchange during the latest open enrollment period. According to information released by the state’s exchange, some 40,285 have enrolled in the exchange before December 15. These people will have their new insurance policies go active on January 1, 2015, and will also receive any tax credits they may be eligible for at the same time. Technical issues of the past have been resolved, making it easier for consumers to…

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Health insurance has made it into the holiday shopping season

Julie Campbell
health insurance industry

Recently released federal data has shown that there are a considerable number of people returning to the exchanges. Aside from enrolling new health insurance customers, one of the most important achievements that the exchanges need to accomplish are to encourage last year’s customers to return in order to purchase their coverage. This holiday shopping season, enrolling through the insurance exchanges is exactly what Americans have been doing. The federal government has recently released data that shows that consumers are returning this year after having used the health insurance exchanges last…

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Small business health insurance exchange is struggling to connect with companies

Logan B.
health insurance exchange

New exchange designed for small businesses is experiencing turbulence HealthCare.gov has launched its small business service, offering employers the chance to purchase health insurance plans for their workers through a federal exchange marketplace. This federal exchange was meant to be made available last year, during HealthCare.gov’s first open enrollment period, but its launch was delayed due to concerns over the financial impact mandatory insurance coverage would have on small businesses. The exchange is now available to small businesses, but reports of mild technical problems has made it difficult for some…

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Over one million health insurance enrollments in first week of HealthCare.gov

G. Turner
health insurance exchange

Officials from the Obama Administration have now released some data from the start of open enrollment. Recently, the Obama administration released the announcement about the first week of open enrollment for health insurance shopping on the federal exchange website, and revealed that over one million people across the country had already submitted their applications within the very first week. Among those who had submitted their applications under the Affordable Care Act, 45 percent had chosen plans. Nearly half of the applications received during the first week on the HealthCare.gov website…

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Insurance exchange in California awards $184 million in contracts without competitive bidding

G. Turner
California Health Insurance checks

This stepped over a standard practice throughout the government in that state for this type of deal. The California insurance exchange has just announced that it has awarded contracts worth $184 million in a process that did not involve oversight or competitive bidding, which has moved itself outside of the standard practices that are used throughout the government in that state. These contracts include certain deals that will pay millions in dollars to a company with workers linked to the agency’s executive director. The no-bid contracts that were awarded by…

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